File No. 812.512/2240
The Ambassador in Mexico ( Fletcher) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Mexico,
December 27, 1918, 11 a.m.
1862. Universal to-day states that Cabinet meeting yesterday decided to extend until the proposed new petroleum law has been approved by Congress the period fixed for the preferential denouncement of petroleum lands by owners thereof; this period was to have expired on December 31. Other papers have conflicting accounts of what occurred in the Cabinet meeting and situation is not quite clear.
Fletcher